Hi Sven, thanks for correcting my comments. * Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> [2003-12-10 21:37]: | > - NewWorld PowerPC's are well supported (Apple) | > - OldWorld PowerPC's are _not_ supported (because we need a floppy boot | > method here) | | There is already a oldworld kernel in the NEW queue. It is called | powerpc-small, and should fit with miboot on a floppy. a cool. this means 2.4 kernels are now working on OldWorld machines? Why we have then this stuipid "d-i doesn't support oldworld" discussion? | > - Pegasos is supported, if the new kernels escape from NEW (Sven?) | | Yep, altough i will have to redo a build because of some RTC stuff i | have doubts about. cool. | > - IBM RS/6000 machines (Chrep): should be supported, I'm working on a | > special kernel build here at the moment. (direkt cdrom is maybe also | > possible) | | Huh ? The normal kernel build should work, you just need the | powerpc-chrp-rs6k flavor of the kernel. There is also a non-rs6k chrp | flavor (used by the Pegasos, but also other chrps out there, i think). well, I have tested the kernels, which are currently in the archive (normal or d-i) and both of those doesn't work. The machine will *not* boot at all. (I have used the chrp-rs6k kernels). Have you tested those kernels on such machines? | > - PReP machines are completly unsupported | | There is the powerpc-prep kernel, which should work. that's why I have written unsupported. Noone here has really tested the images on PReP machines. The d-i cdrom's are *not* bootable on those machines. I guess we should say here _unsupported. | For chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep, i don't really know what support is needed | apart from the kernel. The kernel with the same powerpc config should | work, but you need to adjust the boot-loader wrapper. I'm playing here with the chrp-rs6k part. | Ah, i forgot, you need to embedd the initrd for some of those, but i | have code and a package (also sitting in the NEW queue) for taking an | initrd and embedding it in the kernel. | | I am not sure of the interest of embeded initrds for pmac, but they can | be used on prep, chrp and chrp-rs6k, when not doing netboots (which can | load the initrd from the net, if i am not wrong). could you please create such a kernel, which an embedded d-i initrd for rs6-chrp machines? I would like to test it, because the only way to load the ramdisk on those machines is currently by using a second floppy disk. But this can maybe replaced by such a embedded initrd file. | > (unsupported means here, you can simply download one of the d-i images | > and install a system) | | Nope, this does not work, you need the kernel sitting in the NEW queue | since over a month for that to happen. Can you put theses deb's online somewhere other, so I can download it and testing the kernels on the rs6k? Bye Thorsten
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